Barbershop Buzz on 'Negro-gate'

Barbershop Buzz on 'Negro-gate'

First we saw the word on "the 2010 census":http://www.thegrio.com/2010/01/with-the-census-there-are-worse-things-than-being-called-negro.php last week. Then news of Senator Majority leader "Harry Reid'":http://www.thegrio.com/2010/01/reids-negro-dialect-remark-politically-incorrect-but-totally-right.phps comment broke. He called Barack Obama "light-skinned with 'no Negro dialect'. Now everyone is using a word "we thought was left for the history book":http://www.thegrio.com/2010/01/Is-Negro-The-New-Black.phps. Is there a "double standard":http://www.thegrio.com/2010/01/democrats-benefit-from-double-standard-with-racial-remarks.php when it comes to race and politics? Does the word "Negro" have any place in today's society?